Hobbits are adorable and their tranquility must be assured by Tall Women With Nifty Swords and/or Commanding Voices that Shake the Foundations Of Reality.

It took me a long, slow time to put together that "putting one another at ease" is the collective project of a society, and that everyone has their part to play. And when it comes from a place of mutual generosity, it really does feel good. It allows for real connection

Social model of disability ruining everything around me (when it is applied out of nuanced balance with the medical model)

I am a liberal not because I'm pragmatist, not because I'm moderate, not because I think it's the normie or reasonable thing, but because I fundamentally think the liberty of the people must be, as much as possible, protected against the abuses of the state.

Working for Lockheed Martin and making weapons is infinitely more ethical than working on short form video social media addiction optimization loops

This is a good point, particularly because many people are inclined to dismiss sympathetic cases as edge cases. When raw numbers are your standard, you'll wind up going after a lot of sympathetic people by design. x.com/LeahLibresco/s…

I think this test needs a lot more questions to reduce noise.

🌐 🇺🇸🇺🇦Mar G-O 🏳️‍🌈 there's an entire brand of thinker who loves to coin dramatic, evil-sounding terms for extremely banal cultural processes. it is useful to have a term to refer to the concept, but it gets frustrating because the literature will freely equivocate between the boring true idea and

It’s like folks take glee in being tactless online :( I didn’t get tact as a kid and had to learn to fake it the hard way: forced to memorize James 3 and then write it out for days. I stopped talking for a while out of fear of coming across too harsh.

If I ever leave journalism it will be to found a non-profit dedicated to explaining the is-ought distinction to internet commenters

I wonder if gov has decided that the ICS sector has been abusing the vul disclosure / patch timeline grace that said sector has traditionally been given, and if we’ll see more of this as they try to harden infra ahead of future conflicts.

"how did you end up working in cybersecurity?" pick a category-

Not to excuse the company because they made privacy commitments that clearly weren't implemented (e.g. delete ID immediately after verification), but this is like the 1000th time where some combination of hardcoded bucket access keys or not requiring a per-device key associated

Struggling with the balance between having a reasonably-sized & well-organized parts/spares/tools collection and hoarding just with a veneer of respectability (sorted into bins with nifty labels and tracked in inventory system)

I’m genuinely thankful for tech like noise cancelling headphones that make it possible for me to sleep while people in courtyard outside my room are having fun (I am too old, sleep deprived, and ‘tistic to participate in fun rn but everyone else should enjoy all the fun :) )